A new report using fresh federal government data has found recent overseas-born arrivals to Australia have “taken almost all of the net job growth” since 2011.

Immigration experts Dr Bob Birrell and Dr Ernest Healy have obtained fresh Australian Bureau of Statistics information showing that 380,000 arrivals to Australia since 2011 had found jobs. But over the same period, net job growth in Australia was only 400,000.

The pair have called for changes to Australia’s skilled migrant program in order to provide more opportunities for citizens and permanent residents.

They found that Australia continues to grant skilled migration visas to thousands of foreign cooks and accountants. This is despite an excess of local candidates suitable for those jobs, and government claims the migration program is attracting workers who have skills required by Australia.

Confidential Immigration Department documents obtained by Fairfax Media reveal that many of those foreign workers who have gained permanent residency in Australia through skilled migration programs are likely to have first arrived as students in suspected fraudulent international education schemes operating between 2006 and 2010.

An October 2009 department report made the startling finding that the Department of Immigration and Citizenship “may have been responsible for granting a record number of student visas to people who may not be considered genuine students as well as granting permanent residence to skilled migration applicants who do not have the appropriate skills being claimed.”

Despite recent changes to make it harder to rort [game] the student visa and skilled migration programs, high-level concerns remain about international education providers and visa fraud.

In their report, titled Immigration and Unemployment, Dr Birrell and Dr Healy call for the halting of the recruitment of migrant workers whose occupations are in surplus in Australia or have available resident candidates.

The pair–both from Monash University’s Centre for Population and Urban Research–found Australia’s job market had been creating only about 100,000 positions per year since the end of the mining boom in mid-2011. But unchanged foreign worker migration policies have led to the current situation where the number of people looking for jobs in Australia far outstrips the amount of positions available.

Immigration Department data used in Dr Birrell and Dr Healy’s research shows overseas-born cooks and accountants made up the leading occupations granted visas under the permanent entry skill program in 2012-13.

Almost 8450 cooks, as well as 1022 pastry chefs and bakers, were given visas under the permanent entry skill program in 2012-13. For the same period, cooks also made up the largest occupational group given temporary 457 visas.

This was despite cooking not having been on the federal government’s skilled occupation list for more than four years.

Their report also highlighted how Australia granted visas under the permanent resident skilled program and 457 category to nearly 7000 foreign accountants in 2012-13.

This was despite 7200 domestic students completing bachelor or higher degrees in accounting in 2012, and the Commonwealth Department of Employment declaring “a more than adequate supply of accountants”.

Dr Birrell said Australia’s immigration program also encouraged rorting of the different visa categories to obtain permanent residency rather than educational outcomes, and the exploitation of foreign workers.

“The whole system needs to be reviewed fundamentally,” he said.

The labour force problems highlighted by Dr Birrell are a hangover from the widespread fraud in the student visa and skilled migration programs that are identified in a series of confidential Immigration Department documents obtained by Fairfax Media.

The documents show how Immigration Department investigators repeatedly highlighted their concerns about student visa and skilled migration visa rorts between 2006 and 2010. But their calls for more enforcement and resources to tackle the problem went unheeded for years.

The report warned: “The department’s investigators reported that foreign students were paying about $50,000 to achieve permanent residency through a ‘significant cottage industry’ involving ‘migration agents, employers and education providers who are linked to a significant level of organised fraud and crime.”‘

The former federal Labor government made changes in 2011 to clamp down on the rorting of the student visa program to obtain permanent residency by introducing a new points test for skilled migrants.

But Dr Birrell said the decision to shield the thousands of foreign students already here from the impact of the reforms and to continue to allow them to apply for residency under the old rules has resulted in the “warehousing” of a large number of low-priority applicants.

He said many of these had studied cooking courses and had only begun to be processed by the Immigration Department in 2011-12.

“This is why cooks and accountants have been the major occupations visaed in this and in subsequent years. We know this because the visa-issued data identifies those who were former overseas students,” Dr Birrell said.

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http://countenance.wordpress.com/ Question Diversity

This means that 95% of all job growth in Australia has gone to immigrants since 2011.

That’s nothing: The entirety of job growth in the state of Tennessee for the last several years has gone to immigrants. That’s Tennessee, as in today’s election, a subtle reminder for those of you in that state who have not yet already voted…

IstvanIN

Which means real job growth was only 5%.

The Captain

I voted early, but who was I supposed to vote for? The party that wants to destroy the bargaining power of labor by importing people who are willing to live 25 to a house and are completely okay with earning 6 dollars an hour or the party that explicitly desires to import subhumans by the ton to destroy white community and white self-determination?

http://countenance.wordpress.com/ Question Diversity

You were supposed to vote for the candidate that wanted none of that, Joe Carr.

Speaking of, while he didn’t win yesterday, I don’t regret my contribution to him, not one bit. I also noticed that for the second time in three days, a stodgy old Republican Senate incumbent running for reelection was held under 50% in his own party’s primary, meaning more people vote for someone other than him, than him.

Einsatzgrenadier

The elites are importing nonwhite “immigrants” and using them to steal jobs from indigenous whites, forcibly dispossessing whites and relegating them to the lowest rungs of the societies that were created by their ancestors. This is more than just the economic and political marginalization of whites. It is also a visceral expression of the elite’s hatred of the white electorate.

http://saboteur365.wordpress.com/ bigone4u

The globalist central banker agenda is the same everywhere. Disempower whites politically and economically, as well as culturally. There was a story the other day that showed that ALL jobs created in Tennessee over a long period of time had gone to immigrants.
The war on whites is a global war, which is why we must link up with white nationalists in Europe and elsewhere. Many of these people are being held back by laws that punish them for their political views. We can see to it that they have a voice by publishing their writings on our websites.

Paleoconn

I think vdare recently showed that all job growth since 2000, you guessed it, all went to immigrants.

LHathaway

95% of job growth? Let’s further break this down by sex. Or are some intersections just too hot to handle?

Paleoconn

The Aussies have a very good natural border, the ocean, yet they still get illegals. Camp of the saints like what is happening in Italy. The navy needs to sink a boat or two and send the message.

IKUredux

Whites of the world, unite! We are in a war for our very survival. TPTB talk about how all the cultures of the world are worth preserving. But NOT ours! They either want to obliterate our culture, co-opt it, or mesh into some kinda of multicultural hash, signifying absolutely nothing. They want to divorce us from the soil our ancestors are buried in. They want to remove our emotional ties to this sacred ground. My great, great, uncle died at Gettysburg. At this point in time, I am ashamed to say he fought for the “Union”. I wish he had fought for the Confederacy, if he were alive today to see what has happened to this country, he would have switched to the grey uniform. Countries can not exist on a “proposition”, are these people crazy? A country is based on shared bloodlines, on culture, on language, on morals, on what it means to live in a civil society and how you treat one another. It is based on shared values, respect for law, and tradition. We White Americans share none of these with illegal, or even legal immigrants. And, based on cultural marxism, we NEVER will. This is a recipe for disaster. And, believe me, the disaster is waiting in the wings. Oh, gee, I made a reference to White civilization again. I mean, does Africa have a lot of stages? How about India? China? Well, I guess if they have been introduced to it by White civilization, I guess the “wings” thing is O.K.

Does Australia give grant money to foreigners to start “businesses” in Australia with the same self destructive urgency America does? (If anyone isn’t aware, and you ever wondered why, exactly every bodega/7-11/city alcohol distributor/etc. Are owned and operated by non whites, that’s basically why. They are given grants or interest free loans expressly to start corner store “businesses” in America, meaning they have no overhead, and a place to employ their under the table paid family members when they get off the boat)

because if they do, I wouldn’t be surprised if a sizeable chunk of that new job growth were foreign businesses established with “free” money, who then went on to hire family members. The number of accountants could resemble the smarter Indians, who are at the top of the scheme, handling the money, buying the property and setting up “Rakeeshes’ delectable curry” and then hiring friends, family, and other foreigners to staff it.

none of your business

I think I sent an article about all the job growth in Tennessee for the last few years going to immigrants. It seems that way in California as well.